On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Joshua ben Jore <twi...@gmail.com> wrote: > What? That's certainly not what happens for me. I just ensured I had > no ~/.cpan or ~/perl5, installed perlbrew, then installed new > perl-5.12.1. When I ran the newly created cpan client, my default `o > conf yaml_module' is YAML and not Parse::CPAN::Meta. I just tried > requesting an upgrade to CPAN and my client is already up to date > (1.94_56).
There are two situations in which CPAN.pm reads YAML files. (1) A distribution contains META.yml or produces a MYMETA.yml after running Build.PL/Makefile.PL -- in this case, Parse::CPAN::Meta is preferred and CPAN.pm will fall back to the configured 'yaml_module' setting if Parse::CPAN::Meta is not installed or if Parse::CPAN::Meta throws an error during parsing. (2) CPAN.pm is reading distroprefs or its own cached data -- in this case CPAN.pm uses the configured 'yaml_module' (which is also used to create the cached data files) -- David
